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The Economist on climate science: Stubborn things and Hot air: Are models that show the economic effects of climate change useless? And Then Steve Said, ‘Let There Be an iPhone’ Climate Legislative and Executive Workgroup Fuel taxes & fees. Also this about dyed diesel. My State Needs Obamacare. Now. (by the Governor of Kentucky) A [...]

Australia’s opposition leader Tony Abbott: “‘Just ask yourself what an emissions trading scheme is all about. It’s a so-called market in the non-delivery of an invisible substance to no one,’ he said, when addressing reporters in Camden, in south-west Sydney, on Monday.” Is British Columbia’s Carbon Tax Good for Household Income? Navius Research says Yes: [...]

How Conservatives can Take Charge of Climate Change: A letter to Senator Marco Rubio B.C.’s carbon tax is driving down emissions Robert W. Fogel, Nobel-Winning Economist, Dies at 86. See also Preston McAfee’s “American economic growth and the voyage of Columbus”. The Obama climate move that nobody noticed (about SCC, Social Cost of Carbon) Remember [...]

A great Everett Herald editorial: It’s time for a carbon tax Sightline’s Talking Carbon Taxes, Free-Enterprise Style In transportation news, a modest transportation bill is heading for the Governor’s desk: “Lawmakers are leaving aside for now the more contentious question of a transportation revenue package that would augment the budget. That debate is set to [...]

It’s time for a carbon tax Fueling Up for the Long Haul: natural gas use in trucking David Crowe: Gasaholic Pollution Is Radically Changing Childhood in China’s Cities In Europe, Paid Permits for Pollution Are Fizzling Three issues to watch in Oregon’s carbon tax debate and A smarter tax for Oregon, by Tom Potiowsky, Northwest [...]

The National Association of Manufacturers just released a scathing report on carbon taxes (the full report was produced—unfortunately—with the assistance of my friends at NERA), but in reality all their analysis shows is that paying down the Federal debt is the poison pill of economic policy: as long as the economy is struggling to recover, [...]

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